From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-01-24T20:01:55+09:00
Subject: library to rurn money into nominal value?

Hi,

I wonder if there is something like $subj so that I don't reinvent the 
wheel. What I need is something like:

money_to_val('$12.56')    => 12.56
money_to_val('$ 12.56')   => 12.56
money_to_val('$ 12,56')   => 12.56
money_to_val('US$ 12,56') => 12.56
money_to_val('12.56$')    => 12.56
money_to_val('USD 12.56') => 12.56

maybe even

money_to_val('12 dollars, 56 cents') => 12.56

Probably what I need to cover 95% of the cases is to remove all the 
non-digits except a delimiter (, or .) I guess. Or not?

Thanks,
Peter

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